Water Feature Day.

So Emily was at the hairdresser.
Daryl was painting the side of the house.
Martine and I wheelbarrowed ‘brickie’s sand’ from Daryl’s Ute at the front of the house to the Outdoor Shower area in the backyard.
( They are both swimmers. Need this shower after the surf.)
So sand all laid in the Outdoor Shower area.
River rocks and a huge flat rock under the shower to be laid perhaps next week.

Martine and I attacked the water feature.
This is huge.
About 200 years old.
An old Japanese bath.
( Imagine a giant cooking pot that cannibals cooked up the terrified humans in, and you have the picture.)
This thing is magnificent.
So after fighting to get the 3 huge jasmine that were cascading down the sides of this pot out, we scrubbed and washed it out.
Then .... there was an outlet ... to drain all the water away...
We wanted the water to stay in there.
So, luckily, Martine drinks champagne.

So we had the occasional champagne cork on hand.
We measured...
Looked at one another ...
And hammered this cork into the outlet pipe.
Worked.
We grinned.
Then rolled this enormous, very, very heavy cast iron, cannibal cooking pot into position under the wonderful paperbark in the back yard.
Levelled.
Bricks placed inside to support the water pump.
Hose on.
Filled it with water.
Turned the pump on.
ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR!!!

Check out the photos.

Sat round the open fire in the backyard, admiring our day’s work.
Poor Daryl came off second best with his painted side of the house... but we did all stand and admire it.
Just not as effective as running water.
Dinner by the open fire.
Not saying what it was because, again, didn’t know it and can’t spell it.
Delicious.
It’s got so they no longer ask if I like something, they just feed me.
Works very well for me!

Early night 7.30 bed.
Kayaking tomorrow.

Should be interesting.
Apparently the sea dumped heaps of sand at the entrance of Woolgoolga Creek where it meets the sea.
So it cannot flow into the sea.
The creek is still flowing but cannot get into the sea.
So the Lake is really filling up.
Not so shallow now.
Will be interesting to see if it has cleared tomorrow.

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